From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 8: 3:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3E514F0D for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id UAA23479; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:54:19 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id TAA00841; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:12:16 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA00696; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:06:50 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:06:49 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: "Bond, Jeffery" Cc: "'alan17@wizard.net'" , "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: RE: FreeBSD Progress! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Hi again Alan, > > Glad you got it booted! Does it remember the settings next time you boot? > > Anyway, to change the root password, just boot into single user mode. You > can do this by giving a '-s' option at the diskXXX> prompt (I believe, but diskXXX> boot -s > check the help). Then just use the passwd command to change it. You can't > just edit /etc/passwd, although you might get away with editing /etc/master. > passwd and then running 'pwd_mkdb' to update the database (or something like > this). Using the 'passwd' command does it all for you. > > Hope it works! > > Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message